Immigration and Obesity
- Resource Type
- Topic overview
- Authors
- Yeh, Ming-Chin; Bruning, Nancy; Viladrich, Anahi
- Source
- Encyclopedia of Obesity. 2008, v. 1, p385-388.
- Subject
- Overweight persons
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Obesity
- Language
- English
Immigration and Obesity IMMIGRANTS COMPRISE A large and growing portion of the U.S. population. The term usually refers to first-generation immigrants or people who were born outside the United States. [...]